A category-specific naming impairment after temporal lobectomy

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-146

  Tippett, Lynette J ^a,c   Glosser, Guila ^b   Farah, Martha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GRADUATE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Category specific naming; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; PSYCHOSURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030042847     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(95)00098-4     Document Type: Article

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